I am putting together a 50th anniversary issue of the BKO newsletter and there will be a brief mention of ink stamps. I never used them (most people won't have!) and I was therefore thinking of including a picture - preferably, but not necessarily, of one being used by an orienteer. This must be going back about 40 years. Anyone got a suitable image that I could use? I have noticed that there is one in the final anniversary issue of Focus credited to 'J. Talyor'. Thanks.

So it is ! Never occurred to me that it was necessary to illuminate a control (even for night-o). But as I said, military area - a few feet from the top of a hill, and trig point ! Misled by the pink colour and 40 odd years.

According to early orienteering literature, competitors (or officials), were expected to write a code on their control card that was displayed on the flag. Self-inking stamps were an obvious improvement! Night controls also had a reflective strip on them.